Thicker Than Water
Description
An exhausted attorney gets forced to defend a murder case where the accused man insists he didn't do it. The lawyer won't trust what his client says and demands that experts examine the gun supposedly used to kill the victim.
Lawyer Nicholas Wedge, who specializes in defending accused muggers, seems certain to lose a case—eyewitnesses saw young Benny Bleeker with a knife at the time the victim, who later died, was mugged. To prove to the jury—and himself—that Benny was not involved, Wedge volunteers to dip Exhibit A—the knife—into a solution of reduced phenolphthalein, the most sensitive of all blood detection chemicals. If the liquid turns pink, it’s all over for Benny.
A tired lawyer is made to take on a murder trial with the defendant adamantly professing his innocence. But the lawyer refuses to believe his client's claims and orders a series of tests to be run on the weapon allegedly used in the crime.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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